Comment 14 for bug 288393

Hi Scott. I'm away at the moment but will re-install with the new version
as soon as I'm home and let you know how I go.

Many thanks

Gilly

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Scott Howard <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be
> reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the
> development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you
> could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next
> release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release
> at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your
> help.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> gnome-power-manager hangs for a while on Dell mini9
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288393
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>
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
>
> I've been experiencing repeatedly a temporary hang on gpm. It caracterizes
> by:
> - info pop up not showing up when hovering over the icon
> - icon not updated when going to or from battery to plugged
> - icon not responsive when clicking on it to access the menu (left or
> right click)
> - close lid or Fn2 does not kick laptop into sleep
> - closing the session informs that gpm won't quit and offers to force quit
> it
> I do not know how to reproduce it appart from using the laptop normally.
> It will occur at least every other time I need to use gpm.
>
> While this is happening, stracing gpm show the following continuously:
> [pid 5801] read(3, 0x9d3b30c, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> [pid 5801] nanosleep({0, 5000000}, {1, 4688}) = 0
> [pid 5801] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
> [pid 5801] writev(3, [{"\231\r\7\0<\0\0\0G\0\0\0\23\0\0\0
> \0\0\0\1\0\0\0\273\34"..., 28}], 1) = 28
> [pid 5801] read(3, 0x9d3b30c, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> [pid 5801] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
> [pid 5801] writev(3, [{"+\r\1\0", 4}], 1) = 4
> [pid 5801] select(4, [3], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3])
> [pid 5801] read(3,
> "\1\2#I\0\0\0\0\v\0\340\3\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0008\231!\n8\231"..., 4096) = 32
> [pid 5801] read(3, 0x9d3b30c, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> [pid 5801] nanosleep({0, 5000000}, {1, 4688}) = 0
> [pid 5801] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
> [pid 5801] writev(3, [{"\231\r\7\0<\0\0\0G\0\0\0\23\0\0\0
> \0\0\0\1\0\0\0\272\34"..., 28}], 1) = 28
> [pid 5801] read(3, 0x9d3b30c, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> [pid 5801] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
> [pid 5801] writev(3, [{"+\r\1\0", 4}], 1) = 4
> [pid 5801] select(4, [3], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3])
> [pid 5801] read(3,
> "\1\2%I\0\0\0\0\v\0\340\3\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0008\231!\n8\231"..., 4096) = 32
> [pid 5801] read(3, 0x9d3b30c, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> [pid 5801] nanosleep({0, 5000000}, {1, 4688}) = 0
> [pid 5801] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
> [pid 5801] writev(3, [{"\231\r\7\0<\0\0\0G\0\0\0\23\0\0\0
> \0\0\0\1\0\0\0\271\34"..., 28}], 1) = 28
> [pid 5801] read(3, 0x9d3b30c, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
>
> #uname -a
> Linux nijamini 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 22 00:29:18 UTC 2008 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> # dpkg -l | grep gnome-power-
> ii gnome-power-manager 2.24.0-0ubuntu8
> frontend for gnome-powermanager
>